Using techniques imported from Toyota, Herman Miller has achieved stunning efficiency while empowering its workers.
Open source loving ice hockey playing New Mexican Japanophile
March 29, 2012
January 21, 2012
Minka are traditional Japanese farm homes, the rarest and most iconic of which feature steeply-pitched, thatch roofs called gasshō-zukuri(meaning “clasped hand”) which readily shed snow and somewhat mitigate the need for a chimney.
I want to go to there.
(via cabinporn)
January 16, 2012
Letter from Birmingham Jail
A little painful to read about King’s criticism of “the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice.”
There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.
(Source: longform, via motherjones)
January 15, 2012
Country Luck
Just a quick thought on being lucky. I’m up visiting friends north of Sacramento this weekend. Got a chance to get in a 5 mile run through the trees, up and down some hills, over several streams. I live in the city, don’t get a chance to breath in the fresh air like this normally. I’m feeling lucky.
January 14, 2012
Abolish the Department of Homeland Security
With all the talk about cutting government, this Bruce Schneier post caught me as substantive rather than politic. A good read.
January 9, 2012
Startup Fever
Hollywood has a serious case of start-up fever. First Ashton Kutcher and Lady Gaga emerged as tech investors. Then other celebrities got into the business ofmoonlighting as angels. Now Los Angeles is spawning all kinds of incubators and start-up accelerators.
The city now has IdeaLab,…
July 19, 2009
July 19, 2009
July 19, 2009
Oh, yea! I’ve tumbled over to Tumblr
Hey, checking this out. Looks like a cool little, uh, note-taking type service. Giving it a shot.
RSS feed: http://casman.tumblr.com/rss
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Sunrise on Manhattan.
This morning, though, will be unlike any other morning.
Lots to clean up.
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Rhyming bookplate.
From the front matter of The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years...
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let me live here
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Man, Tumblr, when you wanna prove a point, you really prove a point!
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Cartoon of the night. Don’t forget to enter this week’s caption contest: http://nyr.kr/M19BkW
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Stains (perhaps from something held between the pages).
From A Treatise on the Structure and Preservation of the Violin and All Other...
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Oft-stamped circulation slip (University of California Berkeley Library).
From the back matter of Pattern Making by Agnes Keith Hanna...
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The Gates foundation plans to organize a world summit in London this summer to bring leaders together and raise $4 billion, the estimate of what it...
